Paul-André Crépeau

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Paul-André Crépeau
Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada
DiedJuly 6, 2011(2011-07-06) (aged 85)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Education
AwardsOrder of Canada
National Order of Quebec

Paul-André Crépeau, CC OQ FRSC (May 20, 1926 – July 6, 2011)[1][2] was a Canadian legal academic who led the reforms of the Civil Code of Quebec and the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

Born in

Rhodes Scholar in 1950. In 1955 he received a Doctor of Law from the University of Paris. From 1974 to 1984, he was the director of the Institute of Comparative Law at McGill University. In 1975, he founded the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law, and served as its Director until 1996. The centre was renamed the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law in his honour in 2012.[3]

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